Tagged: sustainability

Almost Nothing Is Done to White Tea. Then the Kettle.

White tea is withered and dried and given no further processing, but two life-cycle studies that follow it from the nursery to the cup both put the drinker's kettle at or near the top of its emissions.

The Leaf Is Left Alone. The Field Around It Is Not.

The UN just certified Fuding's tea country as a global heritage site, and its own numbers show the tea gardens cover under a fifth of the land, deliberately tangled with more than 120 other species.